1 – Be open to everything and attached to nothing
Open your mind to all possibilities – have the belief that all things are possible. This is a powerful mindset. If you close your mind off to something, it no longer becomes a possibility. We might as well be open to all possibilities because that (at the very least) allows them the opportunity to come to fruition.
Attachments create all of your problems. The need to be right, to possess something or someone, and the need to win, are all attachments. Let go of them and you’ll have a lot more inner peace.
Refuse pessimism! Since we really know nothing (as a wise man once said), we really don’t know why anything happens and therefore have no reason to be pessimistic about a situation or event.
To really illustrate this point, check out this Chinese Proverb:
The moral of this story, is, of course, that no event, in and of itself, can truly be judged as good or bad, lucky or unlucky, fortunate or unfortunate.
2- Don’t die with your passion still in you
Step to your own music and inspiration. Follow your dreams!
3 – You can’t give away what you don’t have
Respond with love in all circumstances because you get what you give. Trust yourself and love yourself. You can’t give love if you don’t have any for yourself. What comes out of you in the form of words and actions, is what’s inside of you. What do you have inside?
4 – Embrace silence
Meditate and take the time to listen to the sounds of nature.
5 – Give up personal history
Live in the now because your past is gone. Remove your labels. You are not your past.
6 – Improve your mindset
You experience everyone and everything as thoughts in your head. Your thoughts are the source of virtually everything in your life. Change your mind, change your life.
7 – No resentments
When you’re resentful, you’re giving your emotional well being over to someone else. Don’t blame others. You are responsible for your life. Send love, peace, and joy for whatever comes your way.
When it comes to criticism, ask yourself, why would I let something that belongs to someone else be a source of resentment? Do not accept that gift. What you think of me is none of my business. Refuse to be offended.
Don’t judge – Judging is defining. Be peaceful, forgive others, let go, free yourself.
8 – Treat yourself as if you already are what you want to be
Act as if you are already that person you want to be. See yourself and declare it. Visualize how that future you would think, feel, and speak and then do it. It all starts with thoughts, then feelings, then actions.
9 – Treasure your divinity
Everything is a miracle. You are a piece of the divine intelligence that supports everything.
10 – Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you
Forgive yourself for shame, guilt, and apathy. Turn over issues, fears, and problems to your higher self… not your ego.
That sums up Dr. Wayne Dyer’s 10 secrets for success and inner peace. Thanks for reading.
There’s never a day that goes by that I don’t think about God. More than thinking, I experience the presence of God in most of my waking moments. It’s a feeling of contentment and satisfaction that’s beyond anything that I might convey in a book. I’ve come to know the peace of Spirit in my life, and because of this knowing, all of my concerns, problems, accomplishments, and accumulations diminish in importance. In this short book, I will elaborate on ten principles to success and inner peace, which, if mastered and practiced on a daily basis, will also guide you to this same sense of tranquility.
The ten “secrets” for success and inner peace presented here apply whether you’re just embarking on your path, are nearing the end of it, or are on the path in any way. Dr. Dyer urges you to view with an open heart. By doing so, you’ll learn to feel the peace of God that truly defines success.
Dr. Dyer shares his view that we’re living in an age of spiritual deficiency. We have more than enough information in our society—it’s spirituality that’s lacking.
Wayne Walter Dyer was a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. His 1976 book Your Erroneous Zones has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is said to have "[brought] humanistic ideas to the masses".
He received his D.Ed. degree in counseling from Wayne State University. He was a guidance counselor in Detroit at the high school level and a professor of counselor education at St. John's University in New York.
He first pursued an academic career, publishing in journals and running a successful private therapy practice, but his lectures at St. John's, which focused on positive thinking and motivational speaking techniques, attracted students beyond those enrolled. A literary agent persuaded Dyer to package his ideas in book form, resulting in Your Erroneous Zones; although initial sales were thin, Dyer quit his teaching job and began a publicity tour of the United States, doggedly pursuing bookstore appearances and media interviews ("out of the back of his station wagon", according to Michael Korda, making the best-seller lists "before book publishers even noticed what was happening"
"... it somehow helped me to reconnect to myself again, regain inner peace and in a way be liberated from overthinking. The qoutes in here from famous thinkers are brilliant and I liked overall message. Quiet and calming. One of those moments in time when I had a feeling that I'm reading a right book at the right time." ~ Lea
Open your mind to all possibilities – have the belief that all things are possible. This is a powerful mindset. If you close your mind off to something, it no longer becomes a possibility. We might as well be open to all possibilities because that (at the very least) allows them the opportunity to come to fruition.
Attachments create all of your problems. The need to be right, to possess something or someone, and the need to win, are all attachments. Let go of them and you’ll have a lot more inner peace.
Refuse pessimism! Since we really know nothing (as a wise man once said), we really don’t know why anything happens and therefore have no reason to be pessimistic about a situation or event.
To really illustrate this point, check out this Chinese Proverb:
A farmer and his son had a beloved stallion who helped the family earn a living. One day, the horse ran away and their neighbors exclaimed, “your horse ran away, what terrible luck!” The farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.” A few days later, the horse returned home, leading a few wild mares back to the farm as well. The neighbors shouted out, “your horse has returned, and brought several horses home with him. What great luck!” The farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.” Later that week, the farmer’s son was trying to break one of the mares and she threw him to the ground, breaking his leg. The villagers cried, “Your son broke his leg, what terrible luck!” The farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.” A few weeks later, soldiers from the national army marched through town, recruiting all the able-bodied boys for the army. They did not take the farmer’s son because he was still recovering from his injury. Friends shouted, “Your boy is spared, what tremendous luck!” To which the farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.”
The moral of this story, is, of course, that no event, in and of itself, can truly be judged as good or bad, lucky or unlucky, fortunate or unfortunate.
2- Don’t die with your passion still in you
Step to your own music and inspiration. Follow your dreams!
3 – You can’t give away what you don’t have
Respond with love in all circumstances because you get what you give. Trust yourself and love yourself. You can’t give love if you don’t have any for yourself. What comes out of you in the form of words and actions, is what’s inside of you. What do you have inside?
4 – Embrace silence
Meditate and take the time to listen to the sounds of nature.
5 – Give up personal history
Live in the now because your past is gone. Remove your labels. You are not your past.
6 – Improve your mindset
You experience everyone and everything as thoughts in your head. Your thoughts are the source of virtually everything in your life. Change your mind, change your life.
7 – No resentments
When you’re resentful, you’re giving your emotional well being over to someone else. Don’t blame others. You are responsible for your life. Send love, peace, and joy for whatever comes your way.
When it comes to criticism, ask yourself, why would I let something that belongs to someone else be a source of resentment? Do not accept that gift. What you think of me is none of my business. Refuse to be offended.
Don’t judge – Judging is defining. Be peaceful, forgive others, let go, free yourself.
8 – Treat yourself as if you already are what you want to be
Act as if you are already that person you want to be. See yourself and declare it. Visualize how that future you would think, feel, and speak and then do it. It all starts with thoughts, then feelings, then actions.
9 – Treasure your divinity
Everything is a miracle. You are a piece of the divine intelligence that supports everything.
10 – Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you
Forgive yourself for shame, guilt, and apathy. Turn over issues, fears, and problems to your higher self… not your ego.
That sums up Dr. Wayne Dyer’s 10 secrets for success and inner peace. Thanks for reading.
There’s never a day that goes by that I don’t think about God. More than thinking, I experience the presence of God in most of my waking moments. It’s a feeling of contentment and satisfaction that’s beyond anything that I might convey in a book. I’ve come to know the peace of Spirit in my life, and because of this knowing, all of my concerns, problems, accomplishments, and accumulations diminish in importance. In this short book, I will elaborate on ten principles to success and inner peace, which, if mastered and practiced on a daily basis, will also guide you to this same sense of tranquility.
I’ve often been asked to speak at high schools and colleges over the past three decades. Frequently, my readers encourage me to write to young adults embarking on the journey of adulthood and provide them with my “secrets” for being successful and happy.
The ten secrets in this book are what I talk or write about when I have the opportunity to speak to young people. However, they’re valuable for anyone who has decided to consciously be on their life path. Each of us makes that choice depending on our individual time clock. For some, it’s early in young adulthood; and for others, it happens in the middle or mature years. The secrets apply whether you’re just beginning your life path, are nearing the end of it, or are on the path in any way.
Most books of this sort, as well as graduation speeches, stress the importance of hard work, dedication, financial planning, relationship strategies, choosing the right career, listening to one’s elders, being respectful of the rules, setting realistic goals, living a healthy lifestyle, and being in a state of gratitude. This is good advice and certainly benefits those who choose to listen to and apply this wisdom. It is my experience, however, both as a lifelong teacher and a father of eight children ranging in age from 11 to 33, that this kind of advice by itself leads one to wondering, Is that all there is?
So, I have no advice on goal setting, putting your nose to the grindstone, planning your financial future, listening to us older folks, respecting your culture, and so on. In fact, I’ve almost always listened to my own impulses, paying the price for taking the road “least traveled” and resisting enculturation, so it would be somewhat hypocritical of me to now tell you to do what I say and follow my rules. Instead, what I offer you are ten secrets that allow your spirit to guide you.
In my experience working with a variety of people over several decades, far too many individuals choose to be anonymous members of the pack, therefore suffering from the inner remorse that makes them feel like failures, filled with conflict and resentment and wondering what the meaning of life is.
So, I’ve written this book in the hopes that it will help you avoid those feelings of inadequacy and help you feel the peace of God that truly defines success. Read these secrets with an open heart. Apply the ones that resonate with you, and discard those that don’t.
When you feel peaceful and successful, you want to extend and export that peace and love. The violence, hatred, prejudice, and judgment in our world suggests that we have miles to go to reach a world of inner and outer peace.
I send you love and all green lights.
— Wayne W. Dyer
The ten “secrets” for success and inner peace presented here apply whether you’re just embarking on your path, are nearing the end of it, or are on the path in any way. Dr. Dyer urges you to view with an open heart. By doing so, you’ll learn to feel the peace of God that truly defines success.
Dr. Dyer shares his view that we’re living in an age of spiritual deficiency. We have more than enough information in our society—it’s spirituality that’s lacking.
Wayne Walter Dyer was a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. His 1976 book Your Erroneous Zones has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is said to have "[brought] humanistic ideas to the masses".
He received his D.Ed. degree in counseling from Wayne State University. He was a guidance counselor in Detroit at the high school level and a professor of counselor education at St. John's University in New York.
He first pursued an academic career, publishing in journals and running a successful private therapy practice, but his lectures at St. John's, which focused on positive thinking and motivational speaking techniques, attracted students beyond those enrolled. A literary agent persuaded Dyer to package his ideas in book form, resulting in Your Erroneous Zones; although initial sales were thin, Dyer quit his teaching job and began a publicity tour of the United States, doggedly pursuing bookstore appearances and media interviews ("out of the back of his station wagon", according to Michael Korda, making the best-seller lists "before book publishers even noticed what was happening"
"... it somehow helped me to reconnect to myself again, regain inner peace and in a way be liberated from overthinking. The qoutes in here from famous thinkers are brilliant and I liked overall message. Quiet and calming. One of those moments in time when I had a feeling that I'm reading a right book at the right time." ~ Lea
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